Disappointing

I'm generally a fan of wormhole/alternate reality books (such as John Birmingham or the Destroyermen series) but this one unfortunately didn't work for me. Probably the only negative review I've left in a couple of years.

Story is fun enough but badly lacks any feeling of reality when it comes to the interactions of the main, naval, characters. Rather than a strong captain and his crew it was all too informal, more like a group of friends out on a jaunt.

Unfortunately I also didn't enjoy the narration. It was great in some aspects but the reader used the same inflection for all characters and didn't put any feeling into dialogue. For instance, when a character says something like "Look out, behind you!" and it's just read as flat dialogue it doesn't really build any suspense. This might not feel the same for everyone though.

Finally, and this is no reflection of the author or narrator, but the publisher (I imagine it would be).... when it changes scenes within a chapter you get a really annoying, and loud, "beep beep beep..." sound, which snaps you out of the story. I have no idea what the beeping is meant to symbolise. I suspect it's meant to be like a sonar ping but doesn't sound remotely like one.

So, first negative review I've left. Unfortunately I can't recommend using up a credit on this particular story.

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